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Re:Here’s How Google’s New Search Results Will Look Under EU... by gettingreal on Sunday February 16, 2014 @06:44AM (#7247371)
Yeah, like how amazon uses their dominance in "SHOPPING" to sell kindle fires?

*edit for clarity

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Re:Here’s How Google’s New Search Results Will Look Under EU... by coldtea on Sunday February 16, 2014 @08:00AM (#7247508)
No, nothing like that.

For one, Amazon is not that dominant in the first place (Google has 80% of the world's searches, Amazon has nowhere near 80% of e-commerce -- estimated to get to around 20% in 2016).

Second, they can't really use their (non)dominance in Shopping to sell kindle fires. At most, they can promote them to their users. Most of which haven't bought one, and wont buy one, according to number of Amazon users vs estimated Kindle Fire sales numbers.

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